March 2019 – Page 24 – Americana UK

Track Premiere – CC Smugglers “Well Well Well”

March 6, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

CC Smugglers started life as a busking band, formed by frontman Richie Prynne in his early twenties. He soon recruited his childhood friends Dan Edwards, Ryan Thomas and Sam Barrett who spent years honing their craft […]

Video: Johanna Samuels “Rush Of Wheels”

March 6, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

A beautifully dreamy country ballad from Johanna Samuels, taken from her forthcoming EP Have A Good One, out on 26th April. We like this a lot.

The Strange “Echo Chamber” (Glitterhouse, 2019)

March 5, 2019 Tris Robinson 0

This album is described as “the long-awaited follow up to The Strange’s first album ‘Nights of Forgotten Films’ from 2004. Yes 2004. The band appears intent on outdoing ‘The Blue Nile’ and can only applaud the latter’s prodigious output […]

Video: Kirsty Lee Akers “Skeletons”

March 5, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

A brilliant video here for the new single taken from Australian Kirsty Lee Akers’ latest album ‘Under My Skin’. The song matches it, with the judgemental and hypocritical nicely skewered, as they should be.

Eric Brace, Peter Cooper, and Thomm Jutz “Riverland” (Red Beet Records, 2018)

March 5, 2019 Steven Rafferty 0

In ‘Riverland’ Mississippi serves as both a proper noun and a metaphor: there’s plenty waiting to be discovered beneath the current and along the muddy banks. Eric Brace, Peter Cooper, and Thomm Jutz are each, in […]